Help provide a more safe and efficient transportation system as an Urban and Regional Planner! We currently have two vacancies at both the entry and advanced level! This position is headquartered at the Hill Farms State Office Building in Madison, WI.
Both positions work as a key member of a multi-divisional team to apply policy analysis, program evaluation, planning skills, environmental principles, economic development principles, impact assessment, social science research, and fiscal analysis to recommendations affecting the development of multimodal transportation plans. These positions play a key role in analysis of a broad range of complex and major transportation issues, including but not limited to:
• Relationships and competing needs between transportation modes
• Environmental and land use impacts
• Bicycle and pedestrian mobility needs and impacts
• Fiscal constraints
• Other transportation issues
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The first vacancy assists with administering and managing the Standalone Curb Ramp Improvement Program. This program address curb ramps that are not within a current roadway project, to bring the ramps into compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance. Primary responsibilities include assisting in managing day-to-day program questions and operations; helping oversee annual data collection efforts; annual reporting through WisDOT’s ADA Transition Plan; annually soliciting projects for the program; and helping manage project changes as needed.
The second vacancy serves as liaison to multiple Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs). This role ensures that the use of funds for planning needs meet state and federal guidelines and provides technical and policy assistance in the development of regional plans. This position works with the Metropolitan & Regional Planning Assistance Unit Lead worker to support the administration of the federal planning funds which are made available to the state each year by the USDOT to support multi-modal urban transportation planning activities carried out by the state’s fourteen MPOs. This position also assists with the management of the Department’s ongoing regional planning assistance program, which furnishes federal and state financial support for transportation planning activities of eight RPCs. In conjunction with the above responsibilities, the position provides policy and technical guidance to local/regional planning agencies with respect to state and federal planning policies and/or objectives, and assists other units of the Department in achieving coordination between state, regional and local plans and programs. The position is also responsible assisting in the management and annual update of the Department’s Statewide Transportation Improvement Program; the four-year program of projects which includes state, regional and urban projects. Frequent travel may be required to participate in MPO and RPC meetings throughout the state.